Yes, Blogger and Google Groups are really annoying.
GMail still has a special "basic HTML" version. It behaves much better over the bandwidth limited or very remote connections. Even at my home, with otherwise high speed internet, as I had some transient transmission problems the "full" version wasn't usable, but HTML one worked.
At least GMail has the real "html-backup version" the OP asked for.
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But then you have sites like Google Groups and some Blogger sites (though GMail used to work in lynx, though I haven't tried it recently).
Yes, Blogger and Google Groups are really annoying.
GMail still has a special "basic HTML" version. It behaves much better over the bandwidth limited or very remote connections. Even at my home, with otherwise high speed internet, as I had some transient transmission problems the "full" version wasn't usable, but HTML one worked.
At least GMail has the real "html-backup version" the OP asked for.